Server error instead of stack trace when code contains non-ascii chars

[chrisz]

Here is how to reproduce the problem:

• create a new project with paster quickstart
• in the index controller, insert flash(u"Hallöle!") (and save the file with utf-8 encoding)
• this should work and display a nice flash message
• pretend you made a mistake by removing the u in front of the unicode string above
• now you get a server error without any clue where to search for the error
• the log output does not help either

This seems to be a problem of weberror (this happened with weberror 0.10.1). I was able to work around this by encoding short_er and long_er in weberror.evalexception.format_eval_html. It's currently not clear to me where weberror is developed, is this part of Pylons? We need to get this fixed properly in weberror and make TG2 use the fixed version.

[jorge.vargas]

weberror was originally paste.something now it's a separate package maintained by the pylons people I believe mainline is  http://knowledgetap.com/hg/weberror/

[mramm]

WebError? is a seprate package, but errors in WebError? can be reported on the pylons ticket tracker or pylons list as Ben and Philip both run the WebError? project too.

[chrisz]

The same problem still exists with the current tip of the weberror repository mentioned by Jorge. I'll report this to the Pylons ML now.

[percious]

if this is reported to Pylons, shall we close it on our end?

[chrisz]

So far I had only reported it  on the mailing list but nobody cared. I have now created  Pylons ticket 606 with a pure Pylons test case for this problem.

Not sure if we should close such tickets. It reminds me or other TG developers to help out with a patch when we find some time, and TG users may also search for this in our active tickets.

[pedersen]

Migrated to  https://sourceforge.net/p/turbogears2/tickets/69/